Sean Hannity portrays federal search warrants on Rudy Giuliani as part of a massive anti-Trump conspiracy
Sean Hannity: “Now is it possible Rudy Giuliani did something wrong here? I would assume it's unlikely, because he is a lawyer and he is smart.”
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Sean Hannity portrays federal search warrants on Rudy Giuliani as part of a massive anti-Trump conspiracy
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From the April 28, 2021, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): We'll start with some breaking news, this is interesting, sad on one level, I'm suspicious on another level, and -- didn't take long for Biden to start using the Justice Department to go after political enemies, and clearly at the top of the list is a guy by the name of Rudy Giuliani, America's mayor. Now, Giuliani, of course, he was front and center investigating Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings with Ukraine.
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Now, also as it relates to Hunter, one person that has seen and has, likely, a copy of Hunter Biden's laptop is Rudy Giuliani, and I'll get to that in a second here.
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By the way, this is a FARA violation that we're talking about here. This is not -- oh, meaning you're supposed to register with the government, if you're -- if you're lobbying on behalf of another government.
Well, my understanding was that Rudy was investigating all of this, as -- as part of op-research, which happens with every campaign. It's a bloodsport, politics, it's ugly -- uglier now than it's ever been. And, of course, he investigated his corrupt dealings with Ukraine.
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So anyway, so, now we're at this point that Rudy Giuliani, this raid took place. Federal authorities raided the Upper East Side apartment of the former mayor as part of a criminal probe into the former mayor's dealings in Ukraine. And the reports are now saying that it's a FARA investigation, in other words did he not register.
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A call to Giuliani's cell phone went straight to voicemail. And we're told that Giuliani may issue a statement, or his lawyers may issue a statement at some point. I don't know, it goes without saying that this raid on Giuliani, just off the top of my head, what have I been saying lately?
If you're a Republican, if you're a conservative, if you're a Trump supporter it's even worse, I mean, they'll put you in jail for years for spitting on the sidewalk or jaywalking. You know, we have, look at Roger Stone's case, in particular. You've got 20 guys, tactical gear, frogmen, pre-dawn raid, guns blazing, and CNN cameras tipped off, they're watching and filming the whole thing, for what, a process crime of lying to Congress?
Or what they did to Paul Manafort. We're talking about tax issues here.
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I do not believe any longer that we have equal justice and equal application of our laws.
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I mean, you wouldn't believe the phone calls I have with my lawyers and my accountants.
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If one comma is out of place, god forbid, they'll want to throw the book at a conservative. And that's how I've governed my life. Because I don't feel that there's equal justice and equal application of our laws. And I do believe our justice system has been politicized.
Now is it possible Rudy Giuliani did something wrong here? I would assume it's unlikely, because he is a lawyer and he is smart. I don't know, it doesn't make sense to me. A FARA violation is a bit of a stretch, there have been other people in the past, that yeah, did the same thing, didn't have a pre- -- you know, a raid of their house, their apartment.
Now, there was a copy, supposedly, of Hunter Biden's laptop that Rudy Giuliani had, and my sources that have seen the laptop, there's still a lot of information, I'm told, that hasn't come out yet. And, you know, my lawyers are forbidding me from even -- from even attempting to get a copy of it, because of what is on there. I'm like, "Well, why can't I -- I'm doing it in the capacity of investigative work, which is what I do," and they're like, "Under -- over our dead body." That was the answer -- Lynda, true or false. Did I not -- did I not get that message from my lawyers?
LYNDA MCLAUGHLIN (PRODUCER): Yes, you did. 100 percent.
HANNITY: Yes I did, I -- and I'm -- all the time! I'm like, well, it's -- it's information, people have it, there's numerous copies, we're able to verify it -- doesn't matter.